The Myton Hospices

Deputy Manager (Hospice at Home Service)

The closing date is 31 July 2025

Job summary

Help us make a difference to people with life-limiting illnesses...

Our Myton at Home Service provides palliative and end of life care in the community.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated clinician to join us as a Deputy Service Manager for Myton at Home.

You'll provide direct clinical care, as well as clinical leadership, management and coordination of the service.

This role will support our work by ensuring patients and carers receive safe and high-quality palliative and end of life care.

We offer a wide range of benefits including:

  • NHS pension
  • 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing with long service
  • Additional leave purchasing
  • Free parking at our hospice sites
  • Winter savings club
  • Discount schemes including Blue Light Card
  • Dedicated staff wellbeing team & mental health first aiders
  • Colleague Support Service: confidential financial, legal & mental health support
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Free on-site flu jabs
  • Free feminine hygiene products
  • 24/7 GP access
  • Free eye tests
  • #DoingOurBit online fitness and wellbeing platform

Main duties of the job

80% of this role will be providing direct clinical care, supporting a caseload of patients. 20% of your tasks will be office-based.

As the Deputy Service Manager, you'll be managing a group of staff day to day, consisting of Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants, and demonstrating leadership skills to support the effective management of the service.

You'll also be liaising and working collaboratively with all staff at Myton and external organisations to ensure patient safety and care quality.

You'll be working from both our Warwick and Rugby sites, although your main base will be Warwick, and you will need to drive to patients homes or other community locations.

We would love to hear from 1st level Registered General Nurses (RGN) with:

  • An assessing, mentoring or teaching qualification
  • Ongoing professional development and extensive knowledge relevant to this field
  • Significant post-registration clinical experience in a similar setting, including multi-professional team working at a leadership level and participating in audits
  • Strong interpersonal skills including leadership, negotiation and diplomacy
  • Leadership / line management experience, including performance management, learning & development, and appraisals
  • The right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship)
  • Clean UK driving licence (the role involves driving)

If appointed, we'll arrange an DBS check including the adults' and children's barred lists because you will be providing healthcare including in patients' homes.

About us

At The Myton Hospices, we provide specialist care and support for people with life-limiting illnesses, and their loved ones, from the point of diagnosis to end of life. We are a much-loved and well supported charity, at the heart of our community. We have three hospices, a range of community services, and 26 charity shops in Coventry and Warwickshire.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and a transparent interview process. However you identify, and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and from ethnic minorities, who are currently under-represented in our hospices. If there are any adjustments that could improve your experience, we encourage you to share this with us. If you have identified a way we can improve, please let us know.

If you would prefer a paper application form, or if you have any questions including about support or adjustments, please contact HR on 01926 838 849 / recruitment@mytonhospice.org or by post: HR, Warwick Myton Hospice, Myton Lane, Warwick, CV34 6PX.

We share interview questions in advance, to reduce nerves and enable you to truly show your abilities. You are welcome to bring notes to your interview, if you would find this helpful.

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£41,932 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0268-25-0015

Job locations

Myton Lane

Warwick

Warwickshire

CV34 6PX


Rugby Myton Support Hub

Barby Road

Rugby

Warwickshire

CV22 5PY


Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose:

Reporting to the Inpatient Unit Manager, the post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day management and coordination of the Myton at Home service, to ensure the delivery and an efficient and effective service under the direction of the inpatient unit manager. This includes the line management of Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants.

The role will provide visible clinical leadership ensuring an evidence-based approach is promoted at all times to the delivery of palliative and end of life care practice within the context of a community service. Overseeing, the planning, delivery and evaluation of a high-quality service for patients and their families.

The deputy manager will ensure there is close communication across the teams (Myton at Home and the Inpatient Unit) providing the coordination and cohesion across the community and inpatient setting.

To work closely with the Inpatient unit manager to provide safe and efficient running of the day-to-day operations.

To contribute to the delivery of an efficient 24 hour/7-day service.

The post holder will promote a learning environment for students/junior staff, where the palliative care approach can flourish, and will be the lead facilitator for educational placements and activities within the service.

The Myton at Home team and the Warwick Inpatient will work closely together and provide cross cover for both the teams and in relation to this deputy post.

Leadership, Management & Clinical Practice Responsibilities:

  1. Exercise strong, effective leadership skills and establish excellent communication with all professionals, patients, relatives and all disciplines within the wider multi-disciplinary team.
  2. Manage and triage the service caseload, ensuring that the highest standards of holistic care are provided.
  3. Maintaining responsiveness to assessment of new referrals and the changing needs of existing patients.
  4. Provide leadership that recognises patients, families and carers as partners in the care team, promoting a person-centred approach and working collaboratively with all care providers.
  5. Act as a positive role model for others to aspire to, leading by example.
  6. Promote and lead a culture of support with daily debrief, facilitate regular 1:1 and group reflective practice to support the professional and personal wellbeing and development of the team.
  7. Lead and facilitate others to be proactive in preparing and presenting clinical information for community MDTs, acting as an equal member.
  8. Co-ordinate team off duty, ensuring staffing levels and skill mix are appropriate and meet the needs of the patients; escalating concerns to the Ward Manager.
  9. Ensure effective and efficient use of resources in conjunction with the Ward Manager to meet budgetary requirements exercising care and economy. Through effective leadership, ensuring time resources and staff are utilised and developed to their best potential.
  10. Work with the Ward Manager in regard to recruitment, selection, management and performance issues of nursing staff for Hospice at Home.
  11. Participate in budget setting and business planning as required within the Hospice.
  12. To respond to any concerns and/or complaints from patients, families or professionals, ensuring the complaints procedure is followed.
  13. Report data and follow up concerns raised from bereavement surveys.
  14. Participate in the out of hours senior nurse on-call rota.

Quality, Safety & Governance Responsibilities

  1. Undertake joint patient and carer assessments as necessary; working collaboratively with other care providers.
  2. Utilise a range of communication skills that enable and facilitate active patient participation in their treatment programme; working openly, honestly and sensitively respecting their dignity, wishes and beliefs throughout all interventions.
  3. Undertake Single Nurse Drug Administration, ensuring that community and hospice policies and procedures are adhered to in keeping with safe medicines management and practice.
  4. Use evidence-based practice, alongside own expert knowledge, skills and experience to empower patients to realise and maintain their potential.
  5. Where requested undertake bereavement follow up visits, referring on where appropriate.
  6. Ensure that the team work in partnership with other care providers internally and externally to ensure that all information pertaining to the patients condition and care needs are communicated effectively and efficiently.
  7. Uphold and ensure compliance with the organisations policies and procedures.
  8. Ensuring all staff are clear in relation to their roles and responsibilities for Risk Management, Health and Safety, Infection prevention and control, Safeguarding Adults & Children, Data protection and other relevant policies.
  9. Ensure all staff are familiar with and adhere to the Hospice lone working policy; be clear with all staff in relation to their personal responsibility to follow the process for communicating with senior on call nurse in relation to their location and the utilisation of the team mobile phones and Solo Protect devices.
  10. In collaboration with the Quality and Clinical Governance Lead; participate in local audit, disseminate outcomes and ensure that any improvements are undertaken.
  11. Ensure that documentation is completed accurately and legibly in accordance with the organisations information governance guidance and confidentiality is maintained using Caldicott Guidelines.
  12. Create and maintain a culture where the reporting of concerns, incidents and complaints are encouraged and documented promptly. Ensuring that clinical adverse events, incidents and complaints are fully investigated and shared learning is undertaken.

Strategy and Service Improvement Responsibilities

  1. In collaboration with the Ward Manager, contribute to the strategic direction and development of the Hospice, and community services.
  2. Work in partnership with other providers and key stakeholders to explore areas of unmet need in order to initiate new/improved ways of working.
  3. Ensure that quality monitoring processes are in place to access feedback and collate data continually to inform service reviews and improvement plans.

Training & Education Responsibilities

  1. Promote and maintain a culture of evidence based clinical practice ensuring the creation of effective local networks to share good practice and dissemination.
  2. Practice an approach that facilitates and fosters learning for carers and professionals, (students, junior staff and those on placement to Myton). Sharing expertise appropriately and supporting each learner to achieve their learning needs.
  3. With the support of the Clinical Education team, assess and monitor the competence and confidence of team members around all aspects of clinical practice, identifying learning needs; supporting and supervising the development of knowledge, skills and confidence.
  4. Ensure all team members receive an annual appraisal and review and provide an agreed personal development plan as part of the appraisal process to support their own professional development.
  5. Be responsible for own continued professional development maintaining up to date evidence-based knowledge including an awareness of the national and local influences affecting palliative and end of life care.
  6. Ensure own compliance with mandatory training and professional development requirements, maintaining records of training and development undertaken for self in preparation for NMC/HCPC revalidation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose:

Reporting to the Inpatient Unit Manager, the post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day management and coordination of the Myton at Home service, to ensure the delivery and an efficient and effective service under the direction of the inpatient unit manager. This includes the line management of Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants.

The role will provide visible clinical leadership ensuring an evidence-based approach is promoted at all times to the delivery of palliative and end of life care practice within the context of a community service. Overseeing, the planning, delivery and evaluation of a high-quality service for patients and their families.

The deputy manager will ensure there is close communication across the teams (Myton at Home and the Inpatient Unit) providing the coordination and cohesion across the community and inpatient setting.

To work closely with the Inpatient unit manager to provide safe and efficient running of the day-to-day operations.

To contribute to the delivery of an efficient 24 hour/7-day service.

The post holder will promote a learning environment for students/junior staff, where the palliative care approach can flourish, and will be the lead facilitator for educational placements and activities within the service.

The Myton at Home team and the Warwick Inpatient will work closely together and provide cross cover for both the teams and in relation to this deputy post.

Leadership, Management & Clinical Practice Responsibilities:

  1. Exercise strong, effective leadership skills and establish excellent communication with all professionals, patients, relatives and all disciplines within the wider multi-disciplinary team.
  2. Manage and triage the service caseload, ensuring that the highest standards of holistic care are provided.
  3. Maintaining responsiveness to assessment of new referrals and the changing needs of existing patients.
  4. Provide leadership that recognises patients, families and carers as partners in the care team, promoting a person-centred approach and working collaboratively with all care providers.
  5. Act as a positive role model for others to aspire to, leading by example.
  6. Promote and lead a culture of support with daily debrief, facilitate regular 1:1 and group reflective practice to support the professional and personal wellbeing and development of the team.
  7. Lead and facilitate others to be proactive in preparing and presenting clinical information for community MDTs, acting as an equal member.
  8. Co-ordinate team off duty, ensuring staffing levels and skill mix are appropriate and meet the needs of the patients; escalating concerns to the Ward Manager.
  9. Ensure effective and efficient use of resources in conjunction with the Ward Manager to meet budgetary requirements exercising care and economy. Through effective leadership, ensuring time resources and staff are utilised and developed to their best potential.
  10. Work with the Ward Manager in regard to recruitment, selection, management and performance issues of nursing staff for Hospice at Home.
  11. Participate in budget setting and business planning as required within the Hospice.
  12. To respond to any concerns and/or complaints from patients, families or professionals, ensuring the complaints procedure is followed.
  13. Report data and follow up concerns raised from bereavement surveys.
  14. Participate in the out of hours senior nurse on-call rota.

Quality, Safety & Governance Responsibilities

  1. Undertake joint patient and carer assessments as necessary; working collaboratively with other care providers.
  2. Utilise a range of communication skills that enable and facilitate active patient participation in their treatment programme; working openly, honestly and sensitively respecting their dignity, wishes and beliefs throughout all interventions.
  3. Undertake Single Nurse Drug Administration, ensuring that community and hospice policies and procedures are adhered to in keeping with safe medicines management and practice.
  4. Use evidence-based practice, alongside own expert knowledge, skills and experience to empower patients to realise and maintain their potential.
  5. Where requested undertake bereavement follow up visits, referring on where appropriate.
  6. Ensure that the team work in partnership with other care providers internally and externally to ensure that all information pertaining to the patients condition and care needs are communicated effectively and efficiently.
  7. Uphold and ensure compliance with the organisations policies and procedures.
  8. Ensuring all staff are clear in relation to their roles and responsibilities for Risk Management, Health and Safety, Infection prevention and control, Safeguarding Adults & Children, Data protection and other relevant policies.
  9. Ensure all staff are familiar with and adhere to the Hospice lone working policy; be clear with all staff in relation to their personal responsibility to follow the process for communicating with senior on call nurse in relation to their location and the utilisation of the team mobile phones and Solo Protect devices.
  10. In collaboration with the Quality and Clinical Governance Lead; participate in local audit, disseminate outcomes and ensure that any improvements are undertaken.
  11. Ensure that documentation is completed accurately and legibly in accordance with the organisations information governance guidance and confidentiality is maintained using Caldicott Guidelines.
  12. Create and maintain a culture where the reporting of concerns, incidents and complaints are encouraged and documented promptly. Ensuring that clinical adverse events, incidents and complaints are fully investigated and shared learning is undertaken.

Strategy and Service Improvement Responsibilities

  1. In collaboration with the Ward Manager, contribute to the strategic direction and development of the Hospice, and community services.
  2. Work in partnership with other providers and key stakeholders to explore areas of unmet need in order to initiate new/improved ways of working.
  3. Ensure that quality monitoring processes are in place to access feedback and collate data continually to inform service reviews and improvement plans.

Training & Education Responsibilities

  1. Promote and maintain a culture of evidence based clinical practice ensuring the creation of effective local networks to share good practice and dissemination.
  2. Practice an approach that facilitates and fosters learning for carers and professionals, (students, junior staff and those on placement to Myton). Sharing expertise appropriately and supporting each learner to achieve their learning needs.
  3. With the support of the Clinical Education team, assess and monitor the competence and confidence of team members around all aspects of clinical practice, identifying learning needs; supporting and supervising the development of knowledge, skills and confidence.
  4. Ensure all team members receive an annual appraisal and review and provide an agreed personal development plan as part of the appraisal process to support their own professional development.
  5. Be responsible for own continued professional development maintaining up to date evidence-based knowledge including an awareness of the national and local influences affecting palliative and end of life care.
  6. Ensure own compliance with mandatory training and professional development requirements, maintaining records of training and development undertaken for self in preparation for NMC/HCPC revalidation.

Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Clinically orientated in order to inspire, lead, develop and support the nursing team
  • Extensive knowledge of palliative care symptoms and required management.
  • Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills including sound verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information.
  • Ability to manage potentially distressing and hostile situations.
  • Ability to support and develop the teams clinical competencies in respect of complex palliative symptom care
  • Identify, assess and minimise risks in relation to patient care or staff.
  • Able to facilitate and lead a team and to act as a positive role model
  • Working knowledge of how to manage and foster professional and personal development
  • Strong negotiation and diplomacy skills
  • A passion for putting patient experience at the forefront
  • Enthusiastic and motivated
  • Able to respond flexibly to changing needs and priorities
  • Empowering leadership and supervision style
  • Professional, pleasant and friendly demeanour
  • Approachable, confident and compassionate.
  • Willing to take on new responsibilities and respond positively to change

Desirable

  • Knowledge of local and national end of life care strategies
  • IT skills

Other

Essential

  • Able to travel between sites.
  • Hold current UK Driving Licence
  • The right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship)

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st Level RGN with current NMC registration
  • Nurse qualification at Diploma / Degree level
  • Assessing, Mentoring / Teaching qualification
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to the field of Palliative Care, Long term conditions or chronic illness management

Desirable

  • Post registration qualification in Palliative care
  • Management / Leadership training

Experience

Essential

  • Significant post registration experience in a similar setting with line management responsibility.
  • Experience in managing palliative care patients in crisis and end of life.
  • Experience in leading and supervising a team.
  • Ability to manage delegated budget responsibility
  • Appraisal completion and staff performance management
  • Experience in leading and participating in multi professional team working
  • Research, audit and clinical governance awareness
  • Experience of participating in audits and staff development
  • Awareness of and the need for professional supervision to be open to constructive challenges

Desirable

  • Experience of community working
  • Experience in receiving and providing clinical supervision
  • Experience of complaint investigation and management
Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Clinically orientated in order to inspire, lead, develop and support the nursing team
  • Extensive knowledge of palliative care symptoms and required management.
  • Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills including sound verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information.
  • Ability to manage potentially distressing and hostile situations.
  • Ability to support and develop the teams clinical competencies in respect of complex palliative symptom care
  • Identify, assess and minimise risks in relation to patient care or staff.
  • Able to facilitate and lead a team and to act as a positive role model
  • Working knowledge of how to manage and foster professional and personal development
  • Strong negotiation and diplomacy skills
  • A passion for putting patient experience at the forefront
  • Enthusiastic and motivated
  • Able to respond flexibly to changing needs and priorities
  • Empowering leadership and supervision style
  • Professional, pleasant and friendly demeanour
  • Approachable, confident and compassionate.
  • Willing to take on new responsibilities and respond positively to change

Desirable

  • Knowledge of local and national end of life care strategies
  • IT skills

Other

Essential

  • Able to travel between sites.
  • Hold current UK Driving Licence
  • The right to work in the UK (we cannot provide sponsorship)

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st Level RGN with current NMC registration
  • Nurse qualification at Diploma / Degree level
  • Assessing, Mentoring / Teaching qualification
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to the field of Palliative Care, Long term conditions or chronic illness management

Desirable

  • Post registration qualification in Palliative care
  • Management / Leadership training

Experience

Essential

  • Significant post registration experience in a similar setting with line management responsibility.
  • Experience in managing palliative care patients in crisis and end of life.
  • Experience in leading and supervising a team.
  • Ability to manage delegated budget responsibility
  • Appraisal completion and staff performance management
  • Experience in leading and participating in multi professional team working
  • Research, audit and clinical governance awareness
  • Experience of participating in audits and staff development
  • Awareness of and the need for professional supervision to be open to constructive challenges

Desirable

  • Experience of community working
  • Experience in receiving and providing clinical supervision
  • Experience of complaint investigation and management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Myton Hospices

Address

Myton Lane

Warwick

Warwickshire

CV34 6PX


Employer's website

https://www.mytonhospice.org/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

The Myton Hospices

Address

Myton Lane

Warwick

Warwickshire

CV34 6PX


Employer's website

https://www.mytonhospice.org/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Details

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£41,932 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0268-25-0015

Job locations

Myton Lane

Warwick

Warwickshire

CV34 6PX


Rugby Myton Support Hub

Barby Road

Rugby

Warwickshire

CV22 5PY


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